Former journalist Michael Giannotti volunteered for Mayor Joe Ganim’s 2015 comeback campaign, accepted a city position as public safety spokesperson at $63,500, then left abruptly
Read moreMonth: February 2017
State Grades Public Schools, Most Drop
From the CT Mirror: The zero-to-100 grade the state gives every public school and district each year declined for the vast majority of public schools
Read moreGoFundMe Page To Bring Victim Home
From Dan Tepfer, CT Post: Nidia “Yubi” Gonzalez had come here from her native Guatemala to make a better life for herself and now her
Read moreThe Trefz Touch: ‘Damn It, Ernie, You Can Have My (Bleeping) Tootsie Roll Too’
When it came to the art of negotiation, Bridgeport business leader Ernie Trefz was a marvel. Almost everything with Ernie who died Saturday morning was
Read moreMGM Resorts Executive: Stick A Third Casino In Bridgeport – Tribes Select East Windsor
Update here. As the battle wages for turf, money and legislative votes in the high stakes location for a third casino in Connecticut, David Collins
Read moreA ‘Horatio Alger’ Career–Business Titan Ernie Trefz
Ernie Trefz, a Bridgeport business community titan for decades whose Downtown-based Trefz Corporation owned dozens of McDonalds franchises, commercial real estate and apartment buildings, passed
Read moreEducation Advocates Debate Student Transportation Distance
On Friday the community action group FaithActs for Education, citing safety concerns, protested a possible cut to busing services for elementary students who live between 1
Read morePolice Investigate Weekend Violence, Arrest Made
Update here. From CT Post reporter Cedar Attanasio: A blood-soaked curb marked the spot on Berkshire Avenue where a man was fatally shot Friday night. 0
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